Timothy’s Law To Be Signed

Gov. George Pataki has a news conference scheduled for 2 p.m. to sign Timothy’s Law, which requires insurance companies to cover mental illness in the same way they cover other ailments.

It’s named for Timothy O’Clair of Schenectady, a boy who committed suicide after his family’s insurance coverage for mental health treatment ran out and his own treatment stopped.

Pataki is doing the signing with Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, R-Brunswick,Â on hand, so it’s likely Bruno will be peppered with questions about his future in light of an FBI investigation and talk of discontent in his Republican conference over his decision not to reveal the probe until after he’d been nominated for another stint as majority leader.